[libreoffice-users] centring text boxes

2018-09-25 Thread Mike Scott
Today's daft question. Why can't you automatically centre up a text box on the page in Writer? If I have an image, I do R-click, Alignment, and pick from a useful selection of options. Try the same on a text box and I get "". It makes laying out a page (and I've just started on an order of s

Re: [libreoffice-users] centring text boxes

2018-09-25 Thread DaveB
On 25.09.2018 09:59, Mike Scott wrote: > Today's daft question. > > Why can't you automatically centre up a text box on the page in Writer? > > If I have an image, I do R-click, Alignment, and pick from a useful > selection of options. > > Try the same on a text box and I get "". > > It makes layi

Re: [libreoffice-users] centring text boxes

2018-09-25 Thread Tom Williams
On 09/25/2018 03:49 AM, DaveB wrote: > On 25.09.2018 09:59, Mike Scott wrote: >> Today's daft question. >> >> Why can't you automatically centre up a text box on the page in Writer? >> >> If I have an image, I do R-click, Alignment, and pick from a useful >> selection of options. >> >> Try the same

Re: [libreoffice-users] centring text boxes

2018-09-25 Thread Steve Edmonds
Hi On 26/09/18 01:26, Tom Williams wrote: On 09/25/2018 03:49 AM, DaveB wrote: On 25.09.2018 09:59, Mike Scott wrote: Today's daft question. Why can't you automatically centre up a text box on the page in Writer? If I have an image, I do R-click, Alignment, and pick from a useful selection o

[libreoffice-users] side by side tables

2018-09-25 Thread Gary Collins
Hi Ive found out how to resize tables so they dont take up the full page width (though to be honest i usually find it easier and more flexible to simply include an additional empty column to right and left and adjust widths as required) but what i would really like to be able to do is to have t

[libreoffice-users] side by side tables

2018-09-25 Thread Gary Collins
PS to previous post I know i could do this by having one "giant" table and just leaving some empty columns &/or rows but it would be more flexible to have two tables as then they could for example have different row heights if necessary. Thanks G. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@

[libreoffice-users] strange problem with text flow

2018-09-25 Thread Gary Collins
Hi Ive got a strange problem which i havent encountered before. Im in writer and have cut and pasted some text from one doc to another. The problem is that a page break has appeared between two of the pasted lines which wasnt in the original document and which i cant remove by positioning the cu

[libreoffice-users] strange problem with text flow

2018-09-25 Thread Gary Collins
Hi Ive got a strange problem which i havent encountered before. Im in writer and have cut and pasted some text from one doc to another. The problem is that a page break has appeared between two of the pasted lines which wasnt in the original document and which i cant remove by positioning the cu

[libreoffice-users] tables: spacing

2018-09-25 Thread Gary Collins
Hi, I have a writer table in which one column contains numbers and the next contains text. The numbers are of course aligned right and the text aligned left; but they run into each other. Is there a way to adjust spacing to contents (as in calc) or do i have to introduce an empty column between